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ROBERT RASMUSSEN
Robert Rasmussen, one of the most
progressive merchants of the flourishing town of Angel’s Camp, Calaveras
County, California, and the genial and accommodating agent for the Wells-Fargo
Express Company at that point, has been a resident of the state for the past
forty years. He was born December 28,
1832, in Denmark, both of his parents being natives of that country, good and
worthy people, who spent their lives there and died valued members of the
Lutheran Church.
Mr. Rasmussen, our subject, was
educated in his native country until the age of nineteen, when he made the
voyage to Australia, where he engaged in mining. His success being only moderate after a trial
of six and one-half years, he sailed to California and first located on Big Oak
Flat, in Tuolumne County, where he mined for five years, going from there to
the mines at Carson Creek and Vallicita, as new
discoveries caused those places to be become known. Not succeeding to his perfect satisfaction,
he accepted a clerkship in a store in Vallicita,
where he became thoroughly educated in the merchandise and express
business. After for four years with this
firm he entered the employ of Mr. Scribner, a merchant of Angel’s Camp, where
in 1883 he entered into partnership, this connection continuing until 1892,
when it was dissolved by the death of his partner. Since that time he has been the sole owner
and proprietor and has made a success of the business. He keeps a large and finely assorted stock
suited to the demands of the community and has adopted modern methods of
conducting his business that render him popular over a wide section of country. The Wells-Fargo Company has located their
express office in his store, and this he manages to their entire satisfaction.
Mr. Rasmussen is a Republican in
politics, and is considered one of the most progressive and important citizens
of Angel’s Camp. He has succeeded by his
attention to business and honorable dealing and merits the esteem in which he
is held in the community.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 297-298. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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